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church hiding behind an insipid basin at the confluence of
19th-century façade. Beyond the underground Olona River
the main church and behind and two canals.
the altar lies the Cappella The canal closest to the square
Portinari, a masterpiece of is the Naviglio Pavese y, running
early Renaissance architecture 33 km (20.5 miles) south to the
gorgeously frescoed with Ticino River, near Pavia. Once
the story of St Peter Martyr by the busiest canal in the entire
Vincenzo Foppa. The church system, since 1978 it has served
houses a vast marble arch as a very long irrigation ditch.
carved in the 1330s. e The façade of Sant’Eustorgio hides a To the southwest of the
4th-century church Darsena is the Naviglio Grande
Along the Navigli u (see p91), a 50-km (31-mile)
One more road south, past Neo-Classical pile dates from waterway connecting Milan to
the confusingly named Porta 1801–14), and you are in the the Ticino since 1177. This now
Ticinese r (unlike its medieval Piazza XXIV Maggio. This marks merely irrigates fields south
namesake up the street, this the intersection of the last of the city. Walk along its far

PIAZZA Stazione VIA GADIO
VIRGILIO
VIA ZENALE 4 VIA CARADOSSO Milano Cadorna VIA PALEOCAPA
VIA VINCENZO MONTI PIAZZALE Cadorna
CADORNA
CORSO MAGENTA
VIA DE TOGNI P I A Z Z A C A S T E L LO
6 VIA CARDUCCI 1
VIA DE GRASSI
V I A C A R D U C C I V. TERRAGGIO VIA ILLICA
VIA S. VITTORE
2
F O R O B U O N A PA R T E
S. Ambrogio PIAZZA VIA S. AGNESE C ORSO MAGENTA Cairoli
5 S. AMBROGIO 3 LARGO
VIA LUINI
7 VIA NIRONE V. SAN GIOVANNI S. MURO CAIROLI
VIA SANTA VALERIA
VIA NECCHI VIA MERAVIGLI embankment (Alzaia Naviglio
VIA L ANZONE
VIA S. PIO V Key Walk route Grande) to the blind alley of
Vicolo dei Lavandai i, down

which is a pretty miniature
canal of stone wash basins
significant remnant of Milan’s covered by a tiled roof.
VIA EDMONDO DE AMICIS
once-vast system of navigli The Navigli has blossomed
VIA CAMINADELLA
CORSO GENOVA PIAZZA (canals). The system was into Milan’s trendiest bar and
RESISTENZA
PARTIGIANA 8 begun in the 12th century and restaurant zone, packed with
V I A C . C O R R E N T I
VIA C. SIMONETTA VIA M. D’OGGIONO VIA G. G. MORA expanded under Lodovico il wine bars, trattorias, pizzerias
and jazz clubs and is the pefect
Moro, who turned to Leonardo
VIA ALESSI VIA CONCA DEL NAVIGLIO for help with the plans. At place for a post-walk drink or
VIA G. FERRARI
VIALE D’ANNUNZIO w 0 9 8,300 boats hauled 350,000 tons
lunch. Porta Genova metro
its late 19th-century peak,
Porta Genova VIALE GORIZIA VIA RONZONI q V.PIO IV the system included 150 km station is a short stroll from here.
CORSO DI PORTA TICINESE
250m (230 Yards) (93 miles) of canals along which
i D a r s e n a V I A A R E N A of merchandise a year, making
Milan the 13th-busiest port in
Naviglio Grande
locked city. The canals’ import-
RIPA DI PORTA TICENESE
u PARCO VIA MOLINO D. ARMI Italy – impressive for a land-
DELLE ance faded with the rise of the
t BASILICHE rail ways, and from the 1930s
y they were slowly filled in.
PZA.e
r SANT’EUSTORGIO VIA S. CROCE West of Piazza XXIV Maggio
PIAZZA 0 metres 300 stretches the main “port”, the
XXIV
MAGGIO VIA SAMBUCO
0 yards 300 1603 Darsena t, an artificial i The pretty Vicolo dei Lavandai
Harbour at Menaggio, Lake Como
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